croque-choux

Tripping around

Sunday was spent just kind of bumming around, which almost never seems to happen somehow what with homework and getting ready for Monday. Today we had brunch at Breakfast in America located here, which was fun and almost like being in a diner somewhere back home in the States :o) Yeah, well I guess I do sometimes still get homesick after all these years of living in France. There are lots of fun stores in the neighborhood carrying comic books, toys, and stuff from Kidrobot, so you know where my kids wanted to go afterwards... (mostly chez Album).

Broderies.

This week flew by so fast that I didn't get a chance to embroider a thing. First week on the new job and all that... However, one of the nice things about working where I now work is that there is a real library on site, and that's where I discovered this book on embroidery by Francoise Tellier Loumagne. Wow... great photos and lots of inspiration to help you discover ways of transposing your ideas into embroidery. On one page you've got pictures of plants, flowers, and everyday things like a window with dew drops (my fave), and on the facing page the same image imagined in needlework. She has written other books too which you may be familiar with. Anyway, no need to read French to savor the images and ideas in this book!

Nice try anyway...

Take A Stitch Tuesday is a fun challenge that Sharon B started at the beginning of the year- a great way to learn new embroidery stitches or in my case, pick up hand embroidering again! I jumped in a little late without any idea of what to stitch, hence this rather small effort for last week's blanket stitch :o) I started by stitching down a leaf I felted and then just played around a little until I ran out of time. Maybe I'll just keep adding on to this little piece of cotton and see what happens. I may tea dye it though later on (background is a lot whiter in reality).

New things

I am trying to get back in the loop- I'm so behind in my crafting, answering e-mail, and reading! So what has been going on?

I just finished a temp job in Paris spending far too much time rushing around trying to get everything done and worrying about the stuff that didn't get done. In the end, all the worry was for nothing as most worrying is- they were happy with my work and gave me a very nice send-off and these flowers. The good news is that Monday I jump into a brand new job, a real job very close to home with normal hours (yay!), which should leave me more time to actually have a Life :o)

I "adopted" a Misio, an adorable little amigurumi kitty all the way from Australia- beautifully crocheted by Madoka. I mentioned her site recently, and when some of her kitties went up for adoption I scurried over to eBay and snagged one! I would have some better pictures if my son hadn't gotten a little over curious with my digital camera -more about that some other day... Today it actually felt like Spring, which is why Misio is sunning herself on my dining table.

A few people have asked me if I sell my fabric postcards, which is very flattering! the Answer: Not so far, but this is definitely something new I'd like to try. Maybe now I'll finally have a little more time to pursue this idea...

Good reading

Hope that 2007 got off to a good start for everyone! I had to work the day after Christmas and the day after New Year's day, so not much time for blogging or pouring over these lovely books I got for Christmas. You might remember me mentioning Lea Stanshal's book recently, so you can imagine how glad I was to find this under the tree. A storybook and craft book all in one, with wonderful photographs! Apparently Lea gives classes too... I think I'd like to try making one of her little birds, like the one on page 57 here- isn't it beautiful? The Fimo book is from my daughter- which makes me think that we should spend more time making crafts together (she especially likes Fimo and making collages); maybe she wants me to play with polymer clay again?